Andre Green at the Squiggle Foundation

145 Pages·2016·4.39 MB·English

by  Jan Abram

ANDRÉ GREEN
at The Squiggle Foundation
Winnicott Studies Monograph Series
Published and distributed by Karnac Books
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ANDRÉ GREEN

at The Squiggle Foundation

revised edition
Edited by
Jan Abram
KARNAC
For
The Squiggle Foundation
First published in 2000 by
H. Karnac (Books) Ltd, London
This revised edition
First published in 2016 by
Karnac Books Ltd
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Copyright © 2000, 2016 The Squiggle Foundation
Editor’s preface & acknowledgements and Editor’s foreword
copyright © 2016 Jan Abram
Lectures copyright © 2000 André Green
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CONTENTS
acknowledgements ix
about the author and editor xi
editor’s preface & acknowledgements by Jan Abram xiii
editor’s foreword by Jan Abram xvii
1 Experience and thinking in analytic practice (1987) 1
2 Object(s) and subject (1990) 17
3 On thirdness (1991) 39
4 The posthumous Winnicott: on Human Nature (1996) 69
5 The intuition of the negative
in Playing and Reality (1997) 85
references 107
index 111
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Squiggle Foundation exists to promote knowledge and under-
standing of D. W. Winnicott’s work with the aim of encouraging the
application of his ideas across psychoanalysis and psychiatry, and
education, health, and welfare services. Promoting a “Winnicottian
approach” involves both looking again at his work and exploring
the work of those who re-present, expand, redirect, and challenge
the ideas in order to free them from what might appear to be, or
could actually have been, context-bound determinants. Through this
means we can restate the essential excellence of his good-enough
concepts and formulations and uphold respect for both strength and
vulnerability in all relationships.
The British Psychoanalytical Society marked the enduring
contribution of André Green by convening the conference “The
Greening of Psychoanalysis: An Homage to André Green” in Sep-
tember 2015. In conjunction with this, Jan Abram has produced
some revisions to her edited monograph of the public lectures that
were delivered by him to the Squiggle Foundation between 1987
and 1996 and a further paper presented to the 1997 International
Psychoanalytic Congress in Milan to mark the 25th anniversary of
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